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Just as the Chilcot inquiry eventually exposed government failings over the Iraq war, a full independent investigation into British complicity in Israeli war crimes has become inevitable — despite official obstruction, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP
The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went round the world in 1960, and within months, he had been executed by Belgian and CIA-backed forces, writes KEITH BARLOW
KNOWING chuckles in Dundee’s Caird Hall yesterday as Scottish Labour deputy leader Lesley Laird said: “No doubt that you will have much to enjoy, debate, eat and, yes, drink! But only in moderation.”
Party conferences are not best known for delegates exercising health-conscious self-control.
Scottish Young Labour activists were gearing up for their conference karaoke night. In the spirit of the kinder, gentler politics, organisers were prepared to put on any backing track requested — with one exception: D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better.
Tantrums on Twitter
FAIR PLAY to Duncan Hothersall, the self-styled “small businessman” and “Labour centrist” and editor of the right-wing Labour Hame website.
He is, after all, one of the Morning Star’s most dedicated followers north of the border. The week I began writing this column last year, he was hot off the mark to brand me “a liar and a smear merchant.”
Yesterday he was back, fuming on Twitter: “Just wondering why in the whole wide world of fuck the stewards at #scotlab19 have apparently distributed copies of the communist, Assad-supporting, Putin-endorsing, Brexiteer newspaper the Morning Star to every delegate’s seat?”
A semi-anonymous #FBPE account (the Twitter tagline of the hard-core Remainers) replied: “Because Labour is now run by hard left Trots and Assad-apologists.”
“Trots” is at least an original insult for Morning Star readers.
Booking bother
ROOM BOOKINGS are the scourge of the left — so my heart goes out to the Labour organiser who was trying to find a space for a public meeting in a Scottish constituency I won’t name.
On hearing the preferred venue wasn’t available, he was advised: “But they’ve just done up the Masonic Hall.” The only trouble was the event’s theme: for the many, not the few.
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